WORK THE SECRET
OF SUCCESS.

Lucius Tuttle Sees Nothing Remarkable in His Steady
RiseFrom Ticket-Seller on an Obscure Railroad
to President of the Boston and Maine
Railroad.

TWO years ago the Boston Herald asked a number of
railroad men to tell the secret of success in
railroading. The laconic reply of Lucius Tuttle,
president of the Boston and Maine, was "Work."

However true that explanation may be for the majority
of men, it certainly applies to Mr. Tuttle. At twenty
years of age he was a ticket-seller in the office of the
Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad, in Hartford,
Connecticut. He was without influence or acquaintance,
his father being a farmer near Hartford, but within a
year the boy was made general ticket-agent of the road.

That was in 1867. In 1878 Mr. Tuttle was called in by
the president of the Eastern Railroad to take the general
passenger agency and pull the road out of the slough in
which it had been thrust by a terrible disaster in which
many passengers had lost their lives. In the five years
that he was at the bead of the passenger department the
Eastern recovered its prestige, resumed dividends that
were unthought of in 1878.

His next step was to the head of the general passenger
department of the Boston and Lowell, where he stayed two
years. Then he became general passenger traffic manager
of the Canadian Pacific, with headquarters at Montreal.

Here his most conspicuous service was in laying the
foundation for the Canadian Pacific's splendid system of
long distance passenger traffic, inducing travel and
urging on the settling up of the Canadian Northwest with
booklets, folders, and illustrated advertising matter,
now such a prominent part of that -road's activity.

The opening of the year 1889 found him commissioner of
passenger traffic of the newly organized Trunk Line
Commission, where he remained a year. His next berth was
the general managership of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford, with headquarters at New Haven.

In the twenty-five years of his railroad service he
had completed a circle geographically, and worked his way
out of the passenger department. Henceforth he was to be
counted as one of those on the staff of the
commander-in-chief. Two years later he was made
vice-president of the New Haven.

But while he had been swinging around the circle
through New England into Canada and back a great railroad
system had been growing out of the separate lines which
Mr. Tuttle had served in his earlier years. The Boston
and Maine, built out of the struggling lines which fought
for their lives in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire,
and Maine, had come to be the recognized railroad power
in those States, and when it was left without a head by
the death of Jones and Furber Mr. Tuttle was unanimously
elected president in 1893.

The crowning achievement of Mr. Tuttle's career was
the purchase of the great Hoosac Tunnel in 1900 as a part
of the lease of the Fitchburg Railroad.

His loyalty to the calling in which he has won renown
can be judged from his declaration that "No other
agency has accomplished so much for humanity's
amelioration as the railroad." Not only does he love
his work; he knows it from top to bottom.

As a friend said of him, "He can dissect a
locomotive; he understands thoroughly the
electro-pneumatic signal; he is well versed in all
railroad laws and decisions."